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New Yorkers have mixed feelings about 'snow drought'
AFP, Published on 29/01/2023
» NEW YORK: The idea of New York in wintertime conjures up images of Manhattan's Times Square and Central Park shrouded in snow. Not this year.
Police say British journalist and Brazilian guide shot in Amazon killings
AFP, Published on 19/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil: British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian guide, whose disappearance in the Amazon some two weeks ago sparked an international outcry, were killed by gunfire, Brazilian police said Saturday.
'Champion of Auschwitz': The boxer who brought hope
AFP, Published on 08/09/2021
» WARSAW - Polish boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski was known for his ability to dodge blows. Still, the odds were against him when he fought his first bout at the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz.
Stay or go? French fly home from Russia amid pandemic
AFP, Published on 05/04/2020
» MOSCOW - Christian Querouix, a 69-year-old pensioner, who shares his time between France and Russia, had a difficult choice to make.
Greece wants to return 10,000 migrants to Turkey after deadly camp fire
AFP, Published on 30/09/2019
» MORIA (GREECE) - Greece said Monday it wanted to start sending back thousands of migrants to Turkey, a day after a deadly fire sparked riots at an overcrowded camp on the island of Lesbos.
Victim-blamers have empathy, but it's mostly for perpetrators
AFP, Published on 19/08/2019
» WASHINGTON - You may have seen it among your own friends: a high-profile #MeToo case triggers responses that assign some or all the blame on a victim of sexual harassment, with men more likely than women to side with an accused male.
UN finds 'systemic failures' in its Rohingya response
AFP, Published on 18/06/2019
» UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations experienced "systemic failures" in its handling of the situation in Myanmar leading up to the 2017 mass exodus of Rohingya, a UN report said on Monday.
Silicon Valley eyes Africa as new tech frontier
AFP, Published on 15/07/2018
» LAGOS - With its colourful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech hub in the Lagos metropolis wouldn't look out of place among the start-ups on the other side of the world in Silicon Valley.